Ch1 4:1, The posterity of Judah by Caleb, the son of Hur; Ch1 4:5, Of Ashur, the posthumous son Hezron; Ch1 4:9, Of Jabez, and his prayer; Ch1 4:11, The other families of the same stock; Ch1 4:21, The sons of Shelah; Ch1 4:24, The posterity and cities of Simeon; Ch1 4:39, Their conquest of Gedor, and of the Amalekites in mount Seir.

and she bare Miriam: It is probable that the latter part of Ch1 4:18 should be transposed before this passage, which Michaelis thinks is its right place; for otherwise we have the pronoun she without an antecedent, and children born without their father's being mentioned.

they went: This expedition of the Simeonites took place in the days of Hezekiah, and, as Calmet conjectures, near the time of the captivity of the ten tribes; when the remnant of Simeon would feel themselves obliged to retire more southward into Arabia Petrea, for fear of the Jews, and to seek pasture for their flocks.